These have been rough days for journalists in Kiev, where protests in the streets met with police force and injured reporters and photographers. Olga Rudenko, writing for the Kyiv Post, chronicles the clashes over the weekend in which at least 40 journalists were hurt. The Ukraine government has promised an investigation.

Bloomberg News has been in the news recently for concerns about how it is handling its presence in China. Today it seems the authorities are much more displeased than pleased, excluding Bloomberg's British political correspondent Robert Hutton from a news conference with the Chinese premier and the British prime minister. BuzzFeed reports on the snub.

When you receive a trove of documents, should you share them? Last week PandoDaily's Mark Ames raised questions about the fairness of former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald bringing the stash of Edward Snowden revelations to the new Pierre Omidyar-financed news operation. He even questioned whether Greenwald will have agency to publish all he wishes. Not surprisingly, Greenwald leapt to his defence and has crafted a lengthy FAQ on this matter. It is not a pretty dispute.

Journalism.co.uk looks at detective.io, a new database project underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help journalists look at relationships and connections in datasets. The project lets users input data and maps connections to produce a searchable database.

As Edward Snowden tries to find asylum to avoid prosecution for revealing surveillance secrets, the Freedom of the Press Foundation argues U.S. journalism is spending too much time on him and not enough on his revelations. It uses metadata to demonstrate the fascination with Snowden and relative disinterest with the classified content. Outside of the U.S., though, the issues of surveillance are more widely explored.

Lewis DVorkin, the chief product officer for Forbes.com, rattles off a list of 18 new rules that form disruptive notions for digital media. By 2014, he says, "the press as you know it has ceased to exist. 20th century news organizations are an afterthought." Among other things, he says article pages will be irrelevant, there will be a business case for constantly rolling screens of content, and there will be a "new math" for journalism ("quality + quantity + variety = audience").

Jeff Bercovici, writing for Forbes.com, notes that the public relations giant Edelman is calling for an "ethical framework" for sponsored content online. Among its "ideals" to be pursued: disclosure, an opportunity for audience feedback, a continued commitment to earned media, continuous updating, no quid pro quo, a non-porous organizational divide between those place it and those who work with the journalists.

There are blogs and then there are blogs. Xark, for instance, is one of those blogs that routinely reveals a new path and challenges an old assumption. Its contributors have been around the block and they're growing a little impatient when others are stuck inside the house.

The latest post is exceptional in discussing a new framework for reporting: the data structure as part of what it calls an Informatics Scenario. It provides a good example of how reporters might gather information in this new era (filling in a lot of fields) and it argues convincingly that metadata provide the new path.

As for challenging the old assumption: It assumes no paid content and an insufficient advertising revenue stream, so it requires metadata to generate audiences and revenue. There's trauma ahead, it argues, but there's also hope in the new.